HIV antibodies, antigens, and nucleic acid qualitative and quantitative test findings can be used to detect whether or not someone is infected with HIV.
And the test sample types of HIV including blood, plasma and serum, oral mucosal exudate, urine, dry blood spots:
(1) Whole blood, serum, plasma, oral mucosa exudate, urine, dry blood spots and raw blood product samples can be used for HIV antibody detection.
(2) Whole blood, serum, plasma, virus culture supernatant and raw material samples of blood products can be used for HIV antigen detection.
(3) Plasma and dry blood spots can be used to detect HIV-1 viral load, genetic subtypes and drug resistance.
(4) Whole blood, lymphocyte enrichment fluid, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), plasma and raw blood products can be used for the qualitative and quantitative HIV nucleic acid, genotype detection and HIV-1 isolation and culture.
(5) Anticoagulant whole blood can be used for the measurement of CD4+ and CD8+T lymphocyte counts.
(6) Urine can be used for detection of HIV 1 or HIV 2 antibodies.
Different sample types has its characteristics, and collecting urine samples for HIV antibody detection will not cause pains like blood sample. What’s more, urine sample can better collected by people and the test procedure is much more convenient.
Singclean HIV-1/2 antibody urine assay kit (colloidal gold) uses the technology of immunochromatography to qualitatively detect HIV-1/2 antibodies in human urine samples. The urine sample is dripped into the sample well and chromatographed under the capillary effect. If there is HIV-1/2 antibody in the sample, the HIV-1/2 antibody in the sample will combine with gold-labeled HIV recombinant antigen to form a gold-labeled complex. For only 15 minutes of detection, it can rapidly get the HIV test result.